There have long been complaints about the lack of women in the tech industry. Now there's a towering female figure, in a tech park across the bay from San Francisco, although not quite what some people had in mind.

"Queer lives are just as boring as everybody else's," Jaimes Mayhew says with a laugh. "Our houses are not all that dissimilar, even though a lot of laws have been made restricting what we do in private spaces."

The New York Times has opined that the singular creations of Nick Cave "fall squarely under the heading of 'Must Be Seen to Be Believed,'" a description that certainly applies to the gay Chicago-based artist's "Soundsuits."